Our Mission
Rise Up Patient Advocacy, Inc. helps patients and families navigate the health care system. We coordinate care between doctors, promote and support patient autonomy, give each patient and family a voice, help each understand his or her medical plan of care with compassion and understanding while advocating for each individual’s needs. In the changing field of health care, patient and families deserve to be treated with care and compassion upheld by ethical standards while having his/her medical needs met. We “Rise Up” and give you a voice!
What We've Achieved
We have achieved helping children, adults, and families learn about their diagnoses, treatment, and prognoses by giving them the tools to understand.
We have encouraged second opinions when the first doesn’t seem helpful because it is okay to seek more answers.
We have spoken to physicians and healthcare teams for the patients and families to help make decisions and improve the patient’s care.
We have accompanied patients to appointments.
We have provided advocacy by phone, email, and travel.
We have educated patients and families to make confident decisions in their medical care.
We give hope when they need it most.
We are compassionate when they need someone to listen.
We are there when they have no one to turn to.
We “Rise Up” and give you a voice because our compassion comes from our experiences.